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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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